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The Creative Class | Karim Sadli, Photographer
PARIS, France — It’s 7.58 am. The elevator stops at the 5th floor of Daylight Studios in the 11th arrondissement of Paris. The studio is buzzing with at least a dozen people; technicians, stylists,...
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The Creative Class | Shona Heath, Set Designer
LONDON, United Kingdom — Enchanted tree houses. Perfectly pastiche flying saucers. Gargantuan marionette skeletons. Life-sized Matryoshka dolls. A tumbled-down Humpty Dumpty. Shona Heath’s perfectly...
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The Creative Class | Mathias Augustyniak and Michael Amzalag, Art Directors
PARIS, France — One morning in the summer of 2001, Christy Turlington found herself in a less than enviable position. It was at the Parc des Buttes-Chaumont, north-east of Paris, where Turlington, clad...
View ArticleThe Creative Class | Marie-Amélie Sauvé, Stylist and Fashion Consultant
PARIS, France — “It’s a new chapter and it’s incredibly exciting,” Marie-Amélie Sauvé told BoF, sipping a Coke Zero at La Société, the plush Christian Liaigre-designed canteen in the Paris...
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The Creative Class | David Vivirido & Francesco Sourigues, Editors and...
BARCELONA, Spain — David Vivirido and Francesco Sourigues like to use the term “power-woman,” along with the descriptor “woman on top.” In fact, that’s how the duo sums up both the subject matter and...
View ArticleThe Creative Class | Virginie Mouzat, Fashion Editor
PARIS, France — “Reading. I grew up reading books,” says fashion editor Virginie Mouzat on what drove her to become a writer. “It actually saved my life, it really did,” she adds. “Let’s say, it helped...
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The Creative Class | Penny Martin, Editor
LONDON, United Kingdom — A trace of the academic is palpable in Penny Martin, editor-in-chief of The Gentlewoman. Her past as chair of fashion imagery at the University of the Arts, London, and years...
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The Creative Class | Marie Chaix, Stylist
NEW YORK, United States — You don’t expect one of fashion’s most sought-after stylists to cite the late Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple, as a key inspiration. Yet Jobs’ now famous advice to Stanford...
View ArticleThe Creative Class | Maria Lemos, Showroom Director
LONDON, United Kingdom — Maria Lemos believes it’s crucial that young designers understand that magic moment of retail chemistry, when a consumer’s initial desire for a product aligns with good fit and...
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The Creative Class | Fergus “Fergadelic” Purcell, Graphic Designer
LONDON, United Kingdom — Fergus Purcell is a man who embodies contrast. While his birth name sounds like a cross-pollination of Scottish and English aristocracy (his parents are Irish), his artist tag...
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The Creative Class | Nicolas Ouchenir, Calligrapher
PARIS, France — How many invitations does Anna Wintour receive each day? Guesses are welcome, but it’s safe to assume that we are talking about a high, double-digit figure — a number that...
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The Creative Class | Alasdair McLellan, Photographer
LONDON, United Kingdom — Alasdair McLellan is sitting in the corner of Bar Bruno in London’s Soho with a cup of strong milky tea. It’s an old-fashioned sanctuary from the neighbourhood’s self-aware...
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The Creative Class | Craig & Karl, Graphic Artists
LONDON, United Kingdom — “When we started working, there was that kind of boom around vector-style illustration. It became quite fashionable, certainly in fashion-based stuff,” said Karl Maier, half of...
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The Creative Class | Anthony Turner, Hair Stylist
LONDON, United Kingdom — Anthony Turner, 31, is going on holiday. He’s palpably excited; it will be his first prolonged period of time off — two weeks in Greece — in quite a while. It’s been a busy...
View ArticleThe Creative Class | Kim Hastreiter, Editor and Publisher
NEW YORK, United States — In the early 1980s, when Vivienne Westwood wanted to collaborate with Keith Haring, whom she did not know personally, she called Kim Hastreiter. Hastreiter, then the...
View ArticleThe Creative Class | Lori Goldstein, Stylist
NEW YORK, United States — Just two months before the world would change irrevocably, July 2001 was a glorious summer in Paris. The couture shows had just ended and Lori Goldstein, by then already one...
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The Creative Class | Hans Feurer, Photographer
PARIS, France — “I love women. I have a lot of respect for women and find them more interesting than men. The person I am drawn to is intelligent, strong and beautiful. Women are the main reason I...
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The Creative Class | Loïc Prigent, Documentarian
PARIS, France — Loïc Prigent talks to everyone. For his latest documentary, La Ligne Balmain — a television documentary that aired during Paris Fashion Week on the Franco-German network Arte — the...
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The Creative Class | Justin O’Shea, Buying Director
MUNICH, Germany — The corners have not been rubbed off Justin O’Shea, the tattooed and bearded buying director of Munich-based online luxury retailer MyTheresa.com, which was acquired by Neiman Marcus...
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The Creative Class | Gwenaël Nicolas, Interior and Product Designer
PARIS, France — Deep behind the orderly Flemish-style front of a 19th century brick building on London’s New Bond Street, an unexpected architectural drama unfolds. A geyser-like chandelier seems to...
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The Creative Class | Alister Mackie, Stylist and Creative Director
LONDON, United Kingdom — To reach Alister Mackie’s studio on Kingsland Road, in East London, you must ride up three floors in a shabby service lift with an awkward metal grille. There’s no automated...
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The Creative Class | Panos Yiapanis, Stylist
LONDON, United Kingdom — Panos Yiapanis cuts a distinctive figure, dressed head to toe in black and accompanied by a giant Rottweiler, named Beast. His dark goth-romantic look is driven by his...
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The Creative Class | Sølve Sundsbø, Photographer
LONDON, United Kingdom — Sølve Sundsbø considers photography his “calling” and traces his desire to capture fantastical images with a camera back to a moment early in his life. “I was walking home from...
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The Creative Class | Edouard Roschi, Perfume Developer
LONDON, United Kingdom — Perfume developer and co-founder of niche fragrance brand Le Labo Edouard Roschi, always had a good brain. But after finishing a rigorous chemistry degree in Switzerland, he...
View ArticleThe Creative Class| John Pfeiffer, Casting Director
NEW YORK, United States — “Models now have a much shorter cycle,” says New York-based casting director John Pfeiffer, snapping his fingers at quick-fire velocity to sum up the state of a profession he...
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The Creative Class | Stefan Beckman, Set Designer
NEW YORK, United States — Marc Jacobs runways are true spectacles of showmanship. There was last season’s house, slicked a vivid shade of fuchsia, around which a parade of military surplus-clad models...
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The Creative Class | David James, Art Director
LONDON, United Kingdom — On a rainy Thursday evening at his design studio in a 1960s modernist building in London’s Hackney, the art director David James marked ten years as the creative director of...
View ArticleThe Creative Class | Armand Hadida, Artistic Director
PARIS, France — Before Armand Hadida can talk shop, he needs to change the music. “It’s like we’re in the Caribbean waiting for an over-sweetened cocktail,” he says as we take our seats at an imposing...
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The Creative Class | Jamie Hawkesworth, Photographer
LONDON, United Kingdom — “I remember thinking anything artistic was a bit pointless,” says Jamie Hawkesworth in a Suffolk twang. His formative years in the unglamorous town of Ipswich were not spent...
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The Creative Class | Anaita Shroff Adajania, Fashion Director and Bollywood...
MUMBAI, India — Anaita Shroff Adajania has three high-profile styling careers in three different industries: publishing, advertising and film. As fashion director of Vogue India, a commercial stylist,...
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